The Kissing Booth 2's Joey King and Joel Courtney miss Cape Town and this local milkshake spot!
We recently caught up with the cast of The Kissing Booth 2.
From where their characters are now to their real-life friendship, Joey King and Joel Courtney spilled the beans during our Zoom chat.
From wings at Lefty's to Royale Eatery milkshakes, the duo also shared what became their favourite spots while filming in Cape Town, and the one friendship rule they vowed never to break.
I love a good Netflix romcom.
Give me a bowl of popcorn, my favourite chocolates and sit me down under the covers on a Friday night, and I'll be content with whatever the latest offering on the streaming service is. But I have to say, The Kissing Booth 2 actually exceeded my expectations – see my full review for the film here.
The sequel sees Elle Evans return to high school with her best friend, Lee, for their senior year, while she tries desperately to make her long-distance relationship with Noah work.
Joey King and Joel Courtney both reprised their roles as Elle and Lee – and I was lucky enough to catch up with the stars ahead of the release of the film on 24 July.
We spoke about everything from where their characters are now to their real-life friendship – and even learnt what their favourite Cape Town spots are, since most of the filming took place in the Mother City (are you only realising now their high school looks a lot like the University of Cape Town?).
"Every time I've been able to go back, I've just loved it more and more every single time," Joel says about filming in SA.
He adds: "A local spot for me would have to be Lefty's. That's where we went and ate ribs. Joey, do you remember?"
"Oh my god!" Joey gushes during our interview.
"They were so good!" Joel says. "One of my favourite things about Cape Town has been food and the culinary culture. It's just amazing – everything you could imagine. So much food!"
"One of our favourite places to go was Royale Eatery," Joey adds. "We would get the most delicious burgers and the most thick milkshakes in the world! Oh my god!"
Joey describes South Africa as "the most stunning wine country" as she speaks about Stellenbosch and adds that she loved getting seafood at Kloof Street House.
Another fond memory? "Oh, yeah, obviously, I don't know, hiking Table Mountain was pretty cool!" she says.
We get to talking about their friendship after I bring up a note that Joel passed to Joey while they were on set. (Check out Joey's video on Instagram where Joel snickers as she reads a note that says: "At some point in the next five minutes, I'm going to wink at you. It means I have farted.")
"When you spend that many hours with somebody you kind of develop your own, like, secret language of sanity," Joey says.
And if there's one friendship rule between them that absolutely cannot be broken, Joey says: "Never let the other person get milkshakes alone."
Name a better duo – I'll wait.